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A vision of a grand fireworks display on the 4th of July in the year 2000 motivated village employees and a few officials to volunteer for duty over the weekend cooking pancakes and sausage links. The goal of the pancake breakfast, a first-time feature of the village's annual Jamboree carnival, was to raise money for Fireworks 2000. The Fireworks 2000 fund was conceived by Mayor Kyle Hastings, said Village Trustee Dave Diggs, who spent most of his morning over the grill. Diggs said Hastings' plan is to encourage donations from Orland Hills residents and organizations, which would supplement village funds.

By A digest of upcoming events, compiled by Jerry Crimmins | January 4, 1998

If the weather is snowy, the Schaumburg Park District's Winter Jamboree will include snowman building, ice skating, snow bowling, chariot races and sleigh rides. The public is invited; the fee is $2 per person. If the weather is inappropriate, the event will be rescheduled for Feb. 1. For information, call 847-490-7020. ---------- 1 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at Volkening Lake, 900 W. Schaumburg Rd.

The 3rd annual Fall Jamboree Hoedown to benefit Public Action to Deliver Shelter will feature a disc jockey with a dance team from radio station US99 for entertainment and line-dance instruction. Held at the Tamara/Ramada conference center on Shamrock Lane and Illinois Highway 31, festivities kick off at 6:30 p.m. Friday with a silent auction featuring quilts, wall hangings and a karaoke machine. Dinner, door prizes and a raffle will follow, with music and dancing until midnight.

A carnival ride operator at the village's Jamboree festival on Sunday was arrested after he was found to be wanted on two warrants. Police said they stopped Leon Gatewood, 32, of 730 N. Troy St., Chicago, after he failed to signal a turn out of the Orland Towne Center at 159th Street and 94th Avenue, where the festival was taking place. A routine computer check revealed the two warrants from DuPage County for failure to appear in court.

By A digest of coming events, compiled by Jeffrey Bils | August 10, 1997

Confiscated and unclaimed items accumulated by the Orland Hills police will be sold at a public auction as part of the village's annual Jamboree. The auction list approved by the Village Board on Wednes- day includes a Sony television, Nintendo and Sega game systems, stereo, videocasssette recorder, CD player and numerous other electronic and other items, including a dozen unclaimed bicycles. Police Chief Joe Miller said almost all the electronic items are new and were seized by police from theft suspects who could not prove ownership and for which ownership could not be determined.

Boy Scout David Michael, of North Chicago, was up a hour before dawn Wednesday to eat cold Pop-Tarts and apples and drink milk. He and his buddies had spent the night in sleeping bags on the ground under temporary tarps slung between metal poles. They had broken camp the night before on the grassy field that had been their home for the last 10 days of the National Boy Scout Jamboree, on 76,000 acres of an old Army base about 90 miles due south of Washington, D.C. The big campout, which comes but once every four years, was especially rigorous for David, who spent his days on a pair of crutches or in a cumbersome wheelchair.

By Graeme Zielinski. Graeme Zielinski is a Tribune staff writer who describes himself as a member of the Colecovision Wave | June 29, 1997

Four Humbert Humberts trolling for Lolitas, one wearing a multicolored jester's cap and another dressed in frosted jeans, passed around a joint and looked uncomfortable, marooned in a swirling sea of kids. Lured to a side stage in the New World Music Theatre in Tinley Park to see Echo and the Bunnymen--the post-punk band formed in 1978--the dope-smoking quartet appeared as much an anachronism as the band's lead vocalist, Ian McCulloch, who sang an efficient set as teens improbably tried to mosh before him. "Who are these guys?"

The Carpentersville Village Board voted 4-3 this week to allow the sale of beer at Jamboree Days, which will be held in Carpenter Park Aug. 6-10. Jerry Christopherson, chairman of Jamboree Days for the Chamber of Commerce, told the Village Board, "Whether you like alcohol or not, without it there'll be no Jamboree Days." He told the board that the Chamber of Commerce only expects to make a profit of $11,000 this year from Jamboree Days. He said the chamber must pay large expenses for entertainment, tables, tents and chairs.

Now that Lollapalooza, fueled by electronica and testosterone-charged metal acts, is fast becoming irrelevant, and most of the rest of the coming summer package tours (such as Lilith Fair, or H.O.R.D.E.) cater to increasingly specialized markets, radio festivals such as Q101's annual Jamboree might represent the fan's last, best hope of seeing a decent crop of mainstream alternative pop acts in one place. Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles' legendary KROQ, whose star-studded summer festivals have been setting the example for years, radio station Jamborees, Jubilees and Weenie Roasts have rapidly become the norm, though few flex the muscle of Q101, which trotted out an impressive lineup that represented alterna-rock's most prominent--if not necessarily finest-- artists Sunday at the New World Music Theatre in Tinley Park.